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PREDOCTORAL

Entered in 2004
Lucas Canino

Entered in 2006
Flora Roberts

Entered in 2007
Natalie Belsky
Leah Goldman
David Plotz

PHDS IN PROGRESS

Jennifer Amos. Soviet Displomacy and the Politics of Human Rights: From Nuremberg to Helsinki.
Supervisor: M. Geyer

Rachel Applebaum. Sovietization with a Human Face: Soviet-Czechoslovak Cultural and Social Relations, 1948-1972.
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Heidy Berthoud. The Formation and Development of the Soviet Garment Industry and Its Role in Soviet Culture and Society, 1928-1953. Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Thomas Dunmore. Managing World Order? Trilateralism and the American Foreign Policy Elite, 1972-1985.
Supervisor: B. Cumings

Julia Fein. Provincial Publics: Local Museums and Social Change in Siberia, 1887-1941.
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Andrew Janco. The Soviet Refugee in Postwar Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1961.
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Jeong Ha (Jake) Lee. The Red Cavalrymen and the "Group Politics" in the Interwar Red Army
Supervisors: S. Fitzpatrick and R. Hellie

Mie Nakachi. Replacing the Dead: Reproductive Control in the Postwar Soviet Union, 1944-1955
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Kyung Deok (Ken) Roh. Stalinist Orientalism: Soviet Area Specialists, Japan, and Wartime East Asia, 1931-1951
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Oscar Sánchez. The Political, Economic, and Cultural Development of Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1959-1968
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Andrey Shlyakhter. Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trade and the Soviet Struggle Against It, 1918-1933
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Michael Westren. "The Punished Peoples" in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1941-1961
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick

Benjamin Zajicek. Psychiatry and Mental Illness in the Soviet Union, 1945-1964
Supervisor: S. Fitzpatrick


RECENT DISSERTATIONS

1994
James Andrews, "The Popularization of the Natural Sciences and Technology in Revolutionary Russia." S. Fitzpatrick

Chris Chulos, "Peasant Religion in Post-Emancipation Russia: Voronezh Province, 1880-1917." R. Hellie

John McCannon, "Red Arctic: The Political and Cultural Significance of the Arctic in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939." S. Fitzpatrick

1995
Matthew Payne, "Turksib: the Building of the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad and the Politics of Production during the Cultural Revolution, 1926-1931." S. Fitzpatrick

1996
Golfo Alexopoulos, "Rights and Passage: Marking Outcasts and Making Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1926-1936." S. Fitzpatrick

James Harris, "The Great Urals: Regional Interests and the Evolution of the Soviet System, 1917-1937." S. Fitzpatrick

Julie Hessler, "Culture of Shortages: A Social History of Soviet Trade, 1917-1953." S. Fitzpatrick

Terry Martin, "An Affirmative Action Empire: Ethnicity and the Soviet State, 1923-1938." S. Fitzpatrick

Steven Richmond, "Ideologically Firm: Soviet Theater Censorship, 1921-1928." S. Fitzpatrick

1997
Elizabeth Bishop, "Talking Shop: Egyptian Engineers and Soviet Specialists at the Aswan High Dam." R. Khalidi

Matthew Lenoe, "Stalinist Mass Journalism and the Transformation of Soviet Newspapers, 1926-1932." S. Fitzpatrick

Emily E. Pyle, "Village Social Relations and the Reception of Soldiers' Family Aid Policies in Russia, 1912-1921." S. Fitzpatrick

1998
Elena Pavlova, "Private Land Ownership in Northeastern Russia during the Late Appanage Period." R. Hellie

Joshua Sanborn, "Drafting the Nation: Military Conscription and the Formation of a Modern Polity in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1925." S. Fitzpatrick

1999
Christopher Burton, "Medical Welfare during late Stalinism: A study of Doctors and the Soviet Health System, 1945-1953." S. Fitzpatrick

2000
Stephen V. Bittner
, "Exploring reform: De-Stalinization in Moscow's Arbat District, 1953-1968." S. Fitzpatrick.

Alison Smith, "Cabbage and Cuisine: Food in Russia before the Great Reforms." R. Hellie

2001
Kiril Tomoff, "Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953." S. Fitzpatrick

2003
Jonathan Bone, "Socialism in One Country: Stalinist Population Politics and the Making of the Soviet Far East, 1929-1939." S. Fitzpatrick

Steven Harris, "Moving to the Separate Apartment: Building, Distributing, Furnishing, and Living in Urban Housing in Soviet Russia, 1950s-1960s," S. Fitzpatrick

2004
Mark Edele, "A 'Generation of Victors?' War Experience, Victory, and the Culture of Veterans in the Soviet Union, 1941-1956," S. Fitzpatrick

2005
P. Charles Hachten, "Property Relations and the Economic Organization of Soviety Russia, 1941-1948," S. Fitzpatrick

2006
Rachel Green, ""There Will Not Be Orphans Among Us": Soviet Orphanages, Foster Care, and Adoption, 1941-1956 ," S. Fitzpatrick

Brian LaPierre, "Redefining Deviance: Policing and Punishing Hooliganism in Khrushchev's Russia, 1953-1964," S. Fitzpatrick

Christian Raffensperger, "Reexamining Rus': The Place of Kievan Rus' in Europe, ca. 800-1146," R. Hellie

2007
Alan Barenberg, "From Prison Camp to Mining Town: The Gulag and its Legacy in Vorkuta, 1940-1965," S. Fitzpatrick

Edward Cohn, "Disciplining the Party: The Expulsion and Censure of Communist in the Post-War Soviet Union, 1945-1961," S. Fitzpatrick

Michael David, "The White Plague in the Red State: The Control of Tuberculosis in Russia, 1900-1941," S. Fitzpatrick


ACADEMIC PLACEMENT OF RECENT PHDS

John McCannon, N.E. Louisiana (1994) (now at University of Saskatchewan)
Golfo Alexopoulos, South Florida (1995)
Julie Hessler, Oregon (1995)
Matthew Payne, Emory (1995)
Terry Martin, Calgary (1996) (now at Harvard)
James Andrews, Iowa State (1997)
Matthew Lenoe, Little Rock, Ark. (1997) (now at Assumption College, Mass.)
Steven Richmond, Koc, Turkey (1997) (now at Istanbul Technical University)
Joshua Sanborn, Stephen F. Austin University, Texas (1998) (now at Lafayette College)
James Harris, Teeside, UK. (1998) (now at Leeds, UK)
Jonathan Bone, William Paterson College (2001)
Alison Smith, Colorado State (2001)
Kiril Tomoff, University of California at Riverside (2001)
Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State College (2002)
Christopher Burton, Lethbridge, Alberta (2003)
Chris Chulos, Faculty Member, University of Helsinki, Renvall Institute for Cultural Studies 1994-2002. Now at Roosevelt University, Department of History, Chicago
Mark Edele, University of Western Australia (2004)


BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY RECENT PHDS (1995 ON)